Dangerous Dave
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| Developer(s) | John Romero |
| Release date(s) | 1988 |
| Genre(s) | Platform game |
| Mode(s) | Single Player |
| Platform(s) | MS-DOS |
Dangerous Dave is a 1988 computer game by John Romero. It was developed for the Apple II and DOS as an example game to accompany his article about his GraBASIC, an Applesoft BASIC add-on, for the UpTime disk magazine.
Since the original 1988 publishing of Dangerous Dave on UpTime, there have been three sequels and three ports of the original to other platforms.
- Dangerous Dave (Apple II), 1988, Apple II, 6-color, UpTime (the original)
- Double Dangerous Dave, 1990, Apple II, 16-color, Softdisk (16 color port of the 1988 original)
- Dangerous Dave in Copyright Infringement, 1990, DOS, EGA, non-published (the demo that launched Commander Keen and id Software)
- Dangerous Dave (PC), 1990, DOS (CGA, EGA, VGA), Softdisk (DOS version of the 1988 original)
- Dangerous Dave GS, 1990, Apple //gs, never completed (//gs version of the 1988 original)
- Dangerous Dave In The Haunted Mansion, 1991, DOS / EGA, Softdisk
- Dangerous Dave's Risky Rescue, 1993, DOS, EGA, Softdisk
- Dave Goes Nutz!, 1993, DOS, EGA, Softdisk
[edit] Trivia
The Dangerous Dave series was a hugely popular game in Indian, Pakistani and Israeli school systems[citation needed]
[edit] External links
- John Romero's site: The Saga of Dangerous Dave
- John Romero's site: The Apple II original Dangerous Dave
- John Romero's site: Dangerous Dave in Copyright Infringement
- The Dangerous Dave series at MobyGames
- S&F Prod.'s Dangerous Dave page
- Dangerous Dave PC Walkthrough
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